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Rydan’s POVThe neighbour from the ground floor was the first person I saw when I came through the building’s entrance with Franklin against my back.An older man, the kind of resident who had been in the building long enough to know which footsteps belonged to which flat and which hour of the night belonged to which kind of return. He was coming down the stairs with the unhurried pace of someone doing something routine, and he stopped when he saw me, and his face did the thing that faces did when they took in a significant amount of information simultaneously and were working through the order of it.“Help me,” I said. “Please. I need help getting him upstairs.”He didn’t ask questions in the doorway, which was the specific grace of someone who had lived long enough to understand that doorway questions were not always the right sequence. He came forward and took Franklin’s arm across his own shoulders and we went up the stairs in the careful, slow coordination of two people managing
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Sera’s POVThe moment Rydan’s footsteps disappeared through the passage I turned back to the chamber and made the assessment that the situation required.Vivian was at my shoulder before I had completed the turn, which was the thing about Vivian that I had been watching develop since the night she had come to me three years ago with the specific, determined energy of someone who had decided they needed to understand something and was not going to stop until they did. She had not become what she had become out of impulse. She had thought it through the way she thought everything through, which was thoroughly and in private, and had arrived at the decision with the kind of certainty that didn’t require external validation.“Rydan has him,” she said.“I know,” I said. “Which means this is ours to finish.”We looked at each other for the specific second of two people confirming that they are in agreement about what comes next, and then we moved.The main chamber still had the activity of
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Rydan’s POVFranklin’s face was the colour of something that had given most of what it had.Not sleeping, not unconscious in the way that unconsciousness looked when it was temporary and the body was simply resting from a difficult thing. The specific pallor of someone whose system had been drawn down past the point where drawing down produced a recoverable result, the particular quality of a face that had almost nothing left in it.I said his name.He didn’t respond.I said it again and the sound of it came out differently from the way I had been saying his name for months, differently from the way I had been saying it in the cave and in arguments and in quiet rooms and across kitchen tables. It came out with the specific, stripped quality of someone who had just understood what they were looking at and had not finished understanding it.I shook him. Not roughly, the way you shook someone when you needed the movement to do what the voice wasn’t doing.His head moved with the movement
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Rydan’s POVThe decision arrived in the half-second between watching Ethan disappear through the wall passage and turning back toward the inner chamber where Franklin was.The half-second was enough.If I went to Franklin now and Ethan escaped with the gem, whatever the gem was and whatever it was for, the ritual that was already running had a completion mechanism that we didn’t understand and couldn’t interrupt without understanding. Ethan getting clear with the gem was the version of this night that produced a longer, worse version of the same problem. Ethan not getting clear was the version where tonight was the end of it.I went after Ethan.The passage he had taken connected to the cave system’s outer structure and then to the forest, which was the specific route of someone who had mapped their exit in advance and had chosen it for the cover it provided rather than the speed. I came through the passage and out through the cave’s secondary exit into the cold air of the tree line a
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Rydan’s POVFranklin’s voice from beyond the passage did what nothing else in the chamber had managed to do.It burned through the accumulated physical cost of the past weeks, through the spine wound and the fever residue and the specific exhaustion of someone who had been running on insufficient resources for too long, and what replaced all of it was the particular quality of anger that I had spent three centuries learning to manage because unmanaged it produced outcomes that couldn’t be taken back.I stopped managing it.The men holding me received the full version of what three centuries produced when it stopped conserving itself, and the grip that had been holding me went from absolute to absent in the time it took me to make the decision, and then I was moving and the chamber was moving with me.The fight that followed was not the structured, calculated engagement of people who were thinking clearly about tactics and outcomes. It was the fight of someone who had one objective and
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Rydan’s POVThe sixth arrived the way days arrived when you had been counting toward them with the specific dread of knowing what they contained.We moved at eleven-forty, which was the timing Sera had calculated gave us the window between Ethan’s preparation phase and the ritual’s commencement, the gap where his attention would be divided between managing the logistics and managing the ceremonial requirements of what he was attempting to do. Twenty minutes of potential advantage in a situation where every minute was a different kind of variable.The cave was not difficult to find.That was the first thing that sat wrong. A location this significant should have been harder to locate, should have had the layers of misdirection and counter-surveillance that Ethan had applied to everything else throughout the past weeks. It was findable in the way that something was findable when the person who owned it had decided that being found at the right moment was acceptable.I pushed the thought
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Calen’s POVTime stopped.Sophia stood in Karl’s doorway wearing an oversized t-shirt that clearly wasn’t hers. Her hair was messy, like she’d just woken up. Like she’d spent the night here.“What are you doing here?” she demanded, crossing her arms.The question snapped me out of my shock. “What a
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Calen’s POVThe words echoed in my head, impossible and terrifying.‘He’ll try to kill you.’“Can I leave?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper. “Please. I need to go.”Morrison looked at me for a long moment, then nodded slowly. “Of course. You’re free to leave whenever you want.” He paused,
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Calen’s POVThe walk back to my dorm felt longer than usual. My mind kept circling back to training, analyzing every interaction with Karl, trying to understand what had changed.He’d been professional. Completely, frustratingly professional. Like I was just another swimmer on his team, nothing mor
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Calen’s POVI unfolded the paper slowly, aware of Jeff leaning over my shoulder to read it.A phone number was written across the top in neat handwriting. Below it, a simple message:‘Text me. We need to talk.’No name or explanation. Just a number and a cryptic instruction.“Is that his number?” J
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